Review: Sheffield's Central Processing Unit is quietly becoming one of the most consistent labels in electronic music. Like Warp before them, they successful channel the Steel City's electronic and industrial heritage, while looking further afield for inspiration. Their latest 12" is a second latest outing for British veteran DMX Krew. He serves up a quintet of tracks that amply demonstrate his mastery of IDM, electro and '90s style intelligent techno. Given the ridiculously high quality threshold, picking highlights is tough; for the record, we'd recommend checking out the cheery electro bounce of "Re-Invasion", the intergalactic, Italo-disco influenced "Space Cucumbers", and the bittersweet IDM of "Radioactive Leak".

Review: Although the sound's roots can be traced back to 1985, it was in 1987 that techno really began to emerge, fully formed, from the Motor City of Detroit. One of the first examples of the sound could be found on the flipside of Model 500's Sound of Stereo EP. It was called "Off To Battle", and expertly fixed alien synthesizers, wonky acid lines and hushed vocal samples to a blistering rhythm track. It remains one of the finest cuts in the Detroit canon, as this essential reissue proves. Echoes of early techno's obsession with fizzing drum builds and bold string samples can also be heard on "Electric Entourage", while "Sound of Stereo" - available in remixed and instrumental flavours - still sounds like a futurist's take on Chicago house.

Review: As 2016 draws to a close, Boris Bunnik once again dons the Versalife alias for his third and final 12" of the year. As we've come to expect, it's a hugely melodious and emotion-rich affair, full of glistening lead leads, dreamy, ambient influenced chords, and rolling electro rhythms. He begins with the glacial beauty of "Artificial Affection", which is arguably one of the most picturesque things the Dutch producer has ever committed to wax, before moving further towards Convextion territory on the outer-space sparkle of "Cloaking Mod". On the flip, you'll find the sharp, bleep-heavy, artificial intelligence funk of "Manipulated Matter", and the throbbing, dark room creepiness of "Polychange". Bunnik's releases are usually of a very high standard, and this Brokntoys outing is no different.

Review: Snuff Trax's In The Dark Again off-shoot has been gaining all sorts of praise recently, and that's because the label provides us with exactly the right kind of electro - raw, diverse strains of vintage industrialism for the modern listener (and dancer!). This is the label's sixth outing, and we have four tunes by four emerging talents: Le Chocolat Noir provides a bit of neo-romanticism on the Coexistence mix of "Never Let Go", while Vault's "Freedom Of Choice" makes for one of the most sinister acid experiments we've heard all year. The same artist shreds that sleek elegance to pieces on the rough and cavernous EBM tune "XXIX", leaving "Kill Your Braincop" by Bakunin Commando to fester in a murky pool of echoing sonics, delayed voices and a foreboding harmonic arrangement. Solid stuff.

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